PBS has the mini series of ‘Make ‘Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America at 8 and 9PM, Check your local TV listings for more.
At 8, FOX has the two-hour season premiere of American Idol.Check your local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows
Tags: Celebrities, Late Night, Programming, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight
The awfully accepted reality series The Apprentice is an inimitable mark of billionaire real-estate magnate Donald Trump where eighteen Americans battle to get victory in a string of painstaking business odd jobs. Many of these are inducted in Fortune 500 companies and assigned street smart jobs where they need to conquer with their intelligence and intellect in case if they need to exist in the fray for next tussle.
In each episode, the trailing team is sent to the boardroom to face Donald Trump and his decision makers Carolyn Kepcher and George Ross evaluate the job applicants on their job execution. Later in the board room, Trump’s children Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump judge their performance to decide that who will thrive? Who will fall short? And who will be The Apprentice? This is all about the widely appraised Reality Drama. This reality show was being popular among the witty audience due to its speedy tempo and contradictory characteristics of the contestants who made it an eminent show worth watching.
Donald Trump is the lead character of the series who is one of Manhattan’s most admired real-estate kings, who puts her wit in hosting reality television’s most competitive and loving series. In a interesting turn when Donald Trump expels an Apprentice contestant, he or she rides the elevator down to failure zone and rest contenders allow to traverse towards success.
Omarosa Manigault is the most successful contestants so far for this TV show who set his path into show business after winning the fight.
Tags: ABC, ABC The Apprentice, Donald Trump
Tags: CBS, season preview, Survivor
With official announcement of 2008-2009 TV schedules, CBS finally revealed its list of new shows combined with some of the most applauded and accepted series on television with a number of new attractions. Here CBS disclosed the featuring of five new series including two comedies and three dramas with eighteen existing series returning to the schedule.
The new series includes project Gary [Wednesday 8:30 PM] starring Jay Mohr (Ghost Whisperer) and Paula Marshall (Nip/Tuck) in a comedy about Gary Barnes, a recently single painting contractor, and his dominating ex-wife, Allison, who faces post-divorce chaos after 15 years of marriage; and Worst week [Monday 9:30 PM] about a regular guy (Kyle Bornheimer), can’t help causing fiasco whenever he and his girlfriend (Erinn Hayes) are around her parents.
CBS also returns with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, all are an American crime drama television series that traces the investigations of a team of Las Vegas forensic scientists as they expose the situation behind puzzling and bizarre deaths and other crimes. Other attractions include a delightful Comic Serial Two and a Half Men [Monday 9:00 PM]; A News Magazine with unique style of reporter-centered investigation called 60 Minutes [Sunday 7:00 PM] with two top notch reality series namely Survivor [Thursday 8:00 PM] and the five-time Emmy Award-winning The Amazing Race [Sunday 8:00 PM].
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The CBS fall lineup 2009 also accommodates a number of Drama series including The Mentalist [Tuesday 9:00 PM], story of Patrick Jane and his detective life at California Bureau of Investigation; Eleventh Hour [Thursday 10:00 PM], the tale about Dr. Jacob Hood, a brilliant biophysicist and his attractive counterpart who try to save people from deadly scientific experiments and The Ex List [Friday 9:00 PM] where a beautiful and seductive lady sets out to find her past love interests and her affections.
Beyond other stunning attractions Ghost Whisperer is an exclusive new series to its top-rated Friday, stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, returns at 8:00 PM followed by the night’s utmost rated scripted series NUMB3RS at 10:00 PM.
Tags: Amazing Race, CBS TV Lineup, CSI-NY, Survivor, The Mentalist
At the adventure park, all teams complete a “Detour” selection requiring them to overcome their fear of heights by traversing a log high in the air. They travel by taxi to “The Bridge of the Gods”, where their fear of heights is tested once again. In my opinion, this task is easier than the log challenge - but who am I? In this challenge, the teams must take 2,000 foot zip-line ride to an island. At this island, the teams are faced with a significant memory challenge — a game board testing their memory of the events throughout the race. The race contained ten game pieces, each representing a leg of the race. Behind each picture was a symbol representing either the game’s “Route Info”, “Roadblock”, “Detour” or “Pit Stop”. Each team searched more than 150 clue boxes for pictures. Once they identified the correct picture to support the clue, then they must dash to the game-board and fill the vacant spots. Each time they placed a correct picture, a green light would signal them to move on to the next clue. Once this task was completed, teams found a clue that directed them to travel to the Portland Building and search for a green dinosaur. At this point, they searched on foot for a Russian food cart and finally a donut shop before receiving the clue directing them to the finish line at a local mansion. The results came down to a taxi race for the finish with the winner…Nick and Starr.
This was a fun and exciting episode. This is one of my favorite reality shows.
I still can’t believe this tv show has a full 13 seasons of success and increasing its ratings each year. Time sure does fly.
Look forward to a new, “The Amazing Race” cast for season 14, episode 1 on CBS, February 15, 2009.
Tags: CBS, Reality Shows, Season Finale, The Amazing Race
Could online video site Hulu be appearing on mobile phones any time soon? B&C reports that Hulu CEO Jason Kilar delivering a National Association of Broadcasters keynote on Wedneday evening suggested that the NBCU and News Corp.-backed site could be developed for other platforms, including mobile phones. Kilar did not give any specific details, but said that Hulu needn’t be identical on every platform and “…anything connected to the Internet would be a good fit for Hulu.”
This isn’t the first time Hulu’s hinted about a possible mobile move. At CTIA, NBCU chief digital officer George Kliavkoff said in keynote he didn’t “know why we couldn’t do something similar [to Hulu] for mobile.” When he was pressed further about a Hulu Mobile, he said, “The concept of putting multiple partners together to create a good destination on mobile devices is something we are interested in, but who knows if that would be under the Hulu brand or not – that’s total speculation.” Plus, NBCU has spare spectrum–about 25-30 percent of it not being used, while with Telemundo, 65 percent is idle. Kliavkoff said the spectrum is “available to us to do whatever,” including a wireless service.
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